Patrick Power Library: Launch of GEAC Advance ILS 1994

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Patrick Power Library: Launch of GEAC Advance ILS 1994

Date: 1994

Date Created:1994

Type: Image

Extent: 13 cm x 10 cm

Description:

b&w photograph

Excellent.

Paul Dyer, Secretary Treasurer of the Windsor Foundation, has a go with the computer in the Patrick Power Library during the launch of the GEAC Advance integrated library system. Dr. Ken Ozmon (SMU President 1979-2000) stands to the left and a very youthful Dr. Colin Dodds (Vice President, Academic and Research 1991-2000, SMU President 2000-2015) stands at right. Novanet is the consortium of university and community college libraries in Nova Scotia.

From External Affairs. A scrap of paper taped to the back reads: 'Library links up with other university systems, leaps onto the net: The Patrick Power Library recently united, so to speak, with eight other Nova Scotia universities through the $1.5 million library system called Advance. The state-of-the-art system, created by Novanet Inc., gives students, faculty and researchers access to local and global resources. By clicking on colored icons, students can search more than one million records in the Novanet [online catalogue] ...'